A day to connect and celebrate technology, entrepreneurs, influencers and investors.

Mike McDerment is co-founder and CEO of FreshBooks, the #1 cloud accounting solution for service based small business owners, with more than 10 million users worldwide. Mike has spent the last decade making accounting software accessible to small businesses and is co-author of Breaking the Time Barrier, which helps professionals better price their services, and has seen over 150,000 downloads since its release in 2013. A lover of the outdoors, Mike has been bitten so many times he is reportedly the first human to have developed immunity to mosquitoes.

Rob Hyndman is a Toronto business lawyer whose practice is devoted to technology businesses.
He represents a wide variety of early- and later-stage technology clients and regularly advises
on matters ranging from formation to exits. Rob is an avid supporter of and regular speaker in
the Toronto startup community, and is a co-founder of the mesh group, which created mesh,
Canada’s Web Conference, and its sister events, meshU, meshmarketing and meshwest. He’s
also a co-founder of #hohoto, a semi-annual fundraiser for the Toronto technology and media
communities that benefits the Daily Bread Food Bank. He blogs at www.robhyndman.com and
at hyndmanlaw.com/blog/, and is on twitter at
@rhh. His firm’s site hosts a variety of
resources for use by startups.

Gokul Rajaram, Square’s Product Engineering Lead, leads software development for Square Register, a full point-of-sale system for businesses, and other products. He was most recently the Product Director of Ads at Facebook, where he drove product development and execution for Facebook’s advertising products.

Harley Finkelstein is an entrepreneur, lawyer, and the Chief Platform Officer (CPO) at Shopify. He has a background in startups and eCommerce, and started his first company at age 17 while a student at McGill. Harley completed his law degree as well as his MBA at the University of Ottawa, where he co-founded the JD/MBA Student Society and the Canadian MBA Oath. Harley serves as a mentor and advisor to a number of entrepreneurial organizations and incubators, including Founder Fuel, Extreme Ventures, & Invest Ottawa.

In his role as a Senior Associate at OMERS Ventures, Bram Sugarman is responsible for sourcing and executing investment opportunities in the Technology, Media, and Telecommunications (TMT) sectors. Bram has worked on 15 transactions with OMERS Ventures since he started in 2011 and currently works with portfolio companies Shopify, HootSuite, Hopper, VidYard, PasswordBox, and BusBud.

Bram began his career at Electronic Arts in Montreal as a software developer, before joining online gaming company CryptoLogic. Prior to joining OMERS Ventures, Bram spent time working at Extreme Venture Partners assessing investment opportunities and building growth strategies.

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Aydin SenkutFounder and Managing Director of Felicis Ventures

Aydin Senkut is the Founder and Managing Director of Felicis Ventures. An original “super-angel” investor, he was named to Forbes’ 2014 Midas List and previously appeared as one of the top 25 tech angels by Businessweek. Aydin is well-known as an early backer of a number of iconic companies including Adyen, Clearslide, Counsyl, Inkling, Practice Fusion, Rovio, and Shopify. Fifty Felicis companies have been acquired by industry leaders. Today, his focus is on intelligent SaaS and financial services as well as development of frontier technologies including deep learning and robotics.

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Ariel GartenCo-founder and CEO of InteraXon

Ariel Garten is the co-founder and CEO of InteraXon, creators of Muse: the
brain sensing headband. Ariel studied at the University of Toronto and
did research into hippocampal neurogenesis at Toronto’s esteemed Krembil Neuroscience Centre. No mere neuroscience nerd, however, Ariel is also is a
psychotherapist, a fashion designer whose clothing opened Toronto
Fashion Week in 2003, and has had her work displayed at the Art Gallery
of Ontario. Ariel’s uncommon combination of science and art is integral to the design of every aspect of Muse and to InteraXon’s unique approach to brain sensing technology, making it a vital part of everyday life.

John Stackhouse
Master of Ceremonies

John Stackhouse is an award-winning journalist, author and digital media advisor. Formerly editor-in-chief of The Globe and Mail, he is now a senior fellow at the C.D. Howe Institute and Munk School of Global Affairs. He has also advised a range of Canadian corporations, universities and not-for-profits on digital strategy, and spoken internationally about digital media.